Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
spi·ge·lia Pronunciation:
spI-'jE-l(E-)y& Function:
noun 1 capitalized : a large genus of American herbs(family Loganiaceae) with showy flowers
2 : PINKROOT Spieághel /'spE-g&l,/ Adriaan van den (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist. Spieghel was for many years professor of anatomy at Padua, Italy. He published a major treatise on human anatomy in 1627. He is alsoremembered for an introductory text on botany (1606). The genus
Spigelia of herbs was named in his honor by Linnaeus in 1753.
